Alfred George Fysh Machin (11 October 1888 – 15 December 1955) was an early twentieth-century British writer on the evolution of societies.
Writing at the time when Darwin's theory of evolution was being reappraised in the light of the discovery of Gregor Mendel's work and advances in our knowledge of genetics, Machin tried to make sense of society in evolutionary terms.
In The Ascent of Man (a title he used long before Jacob Bronowski made his famous television series of the same name), he compares the ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer in particular, with reference to Benjamin Kidd.
This line of thought would later be expressed by Boris Sigis and Wilfred Trotter, and by Sigmund Freud in Civilisation and its Discontents Machin was articled to a solicitor in Hull in 1913.
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